Cyclists may be risking their lives using an unofficial path alongside the railway line between Port Chalmers and Dunedin to avoid heavy traffic dangers on State Highway 88.
Advocates of more cycleways in Otago will need to get busy on their proposals if they want a share of a $47.5 million national cycleway fund being set up by the Government.
The full list of known assets of convicted fraud Michael Swann have been revealed in a High Court document detailing 12 properties, 21 vehicles, five vessels and five containers of vehicle parts.
Dunedin's ports and roads are still not congested enough to provide economic justification for an "inland port", according to Port Otago chief executive Geoff Plunket.
Judging by the number of submissions from the public, the completion of the Dunedin to Port Chalmers cycleway is the roading issue of the moment in Otago.
Retirement is looming for the father of Dunedin's The Star Regent 24-hour Book Sale.
Be careful what you throw out.
It is not hard to imagine Dunedin's more upright citizens sighing with relief as Mark Deason handed over the keys of Frederick Street's Bowling Green Hotel in March. For a moment, it seemed as though the end had come for the student quarter's most notorious publican.
A Dunedin real-estate firm is advertising for staff just days after media reports nearly 4000 real-estate agents had lost their jobs because of the recession.
Cadbury yesterday let the cat out of the bag. Making blocks of chocolate is so simple even a journalist can do it.
The state drug-buying agency Pharmac is considering paying for an expensive drug for people with severe Crohn's disease.
The Golden Centre mall in Dunedin will remain open to shoppers while major construction work goes on around them.
Times are tough, but not in the gold industry. Mark Price meets two Central Otago men excited by the potential of small-scale gold mining operations.
Work is expected to begin tomorrow on the $5 million refurbishment of the Golden Centre shopping mall, in George St, Dunedin.
Dunedin Crohn's disease patient Joe Noon (24) has owned up to a past that included heavy drinking and to a continuing smoking habit.
A Dunedin general practitioner has offered to contribute $2000 towards the cost of providing Joe Noon with the drug Infliximab, understood to cost at least $25,000 for a one-year course.
Trials of a new wind turbine made in Dunedin are under way on a breezy hillside above Waitati.
Contrators are removing asbestos from the roof of the Cadbury factory in Dunedin but the company says the work is not being done because the asbestos is a problem.
A $US53 million ($NZ95 million) study of the cattle genome, released today, will lead to greater feed efficiencies and could help deal with the dairy industry's methane problem.
The 147-year-old Danseys Pass Hotel near Naseby is being advertised for sale by its receivers.
